The Most Innovative Wellness Startups in the Nation
Lots of young companies are getting into the wellness space, but not many are breaking new ground. CIX has chosen three wellness startups for its 2016 Top 20, so let’s see what it takes to be considered one of the most innovative wellness companies in the country.
A Helping Hand for Helping Hands
CareGuide has a refreshingly simple mission statement: to simplify access to care services. Need a nanny? How about elder care for your mom? A pet-sitter for your capybara? Easier than you think.
Like many startups, CareGuide was created to fill a lived need. CEO — er, Chief Executive Dad John Phillip Green wrote,
I was a new entrant into the ‘sandwich generation’… all in the same year, I became a father, a homeowner, and a son to an ill father. Our household, and my mom Kathy, quickly had a lot of care-related needs.
By leveraging a portfolio of care-provider domains, CareGuide serves as a sort of dating service, matching you with your ideal care provider.
Pervasive and Non-Invasive
Medella Health wants health monitoring to a bit less poke-and-prod, and a bit more Starship Enterprise. This startup is working on continuous, noninvasive biomonitoring.
Our deep background in nanotechnology, micro-electronics, contact lens research, health informatics and software development, has allowed us to create technology that can change the way we monitor our health.
Founded by Harry Gandhi, Huayi Gao, and Maarij Baig, Medella Health’s initial interface is a smart contact lens, which monitors glucose levels. The user can monitor her own vital statistics on her smartphone.
Own the Pool
TritonWear wants to make you a faster swimmer. With its head-mounted sensor, coaches are empowered with stroke-by-stroke metrics for every lap of a workout, as well as ongoing stats to measure improvements over time — for one swimmer, or an entire team.
Founded by Tristan Lehari and Darius Gai, TritonWear is banking on the future of data-driven sports. Rather than MapMyRun, this is more like TrackMySwim, for a sport where a hundredth of a second is the difference between victory and defeat.
About Wantoo
Wantoo is a simple, powerful cloud-based platform that makes it easy to listen, analyze, and act on feedback from your team, your customers, or anyone else. Our minimalist, intuitive UI is as friendly to your product team as it is for your customers. We are proud to be listed alongside CareGuide, Medella Health, and TritonWear in the 2016 CIX Top 20. For more information, visit wantoo.io.
